Many times I felt to share my thoughts for Salesforce and what I feel while working on force.com platform, their are many things in the list and I tried to cover most of them. Might be something got missed because they are allot.
Starting with the best : Connectivity
Salesforce has connected just everything that is working with them or working on Salesforce, salesforce have Partner Programs, in which they help other companies who work on Salesforce, to make it easier for them to do business.
Connects every one with their largest tech-fest DREAMFORCE. This df'15 was also the biggest one. Saleforce helps their customer at everyone point. They work with the society as well, as in this dreamforce they donated 1 Million books to read more
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There are many things happened at this dreamforce , I got an awesome link to get everything at one place about the dreamforce go to this link,
Dreamforce Content Guide
Salesforce hearts : Salesforce MVPs
Salesforce have like 190+ MVP, which are nominated by others, they are the one who utilize there knowledge and experience of salesforce and their work with other to help them learning in Salesforce, this is also a best way
to acknowledge the person who are truly dedicated to their work, few MVPs I know are just awesome and happy to help others, normal example you can have in the communities of Salesofrce they are every where and making Salesforce geeks everyday, they inspire others with their work helping other in learning of the new things of the Salesforce. Salesforce MVP's are truly hero's the way they encourage other, Lauren Jordan is great example of this initiative she encourages the girl power by writing about womens working on the technology by this she inspire others as well (
https://saasyforce.wordpress.com/)
And the other one is "Admin Hero" this guy is really a hero, writes about the awesome stories of those guys who have been delicately worked on Salesforce (
http://www.adminhero.com/) This blog is by Brent Downey, this is his way of encouragement.
Trailhead : Place to play and learn Salesforce
Trailhead is a place to learn and explore your knowledge with Salesforce platform, it has their Modules and step by step learning tutorial.
This is the year where everybody got to know that how easy is salesforce to learn,
this happened because of the Trailhead, people just started it to learn salesforce and end up becoming a fan of the way they teach you Salesforce, Trailhead is free for everyone, and even kids are learning Salesforce with it. As of now Trailhead has 66 + badges which you will get by completing the modules, the modules of the trailhead covers almost all the part of the Salesforce from Admin to Development to Mobile app to Heroku. Recently they appreciate who all are new to trailheal by sending them an awesome Salesforce t-shirt. If you have still not tried trailhead please go right now and start
Trailhead
Salesforce Certifications
Salesforce certifications is a way to show of your expertise in Salesforce, whoever is working on Salesforce have their own madness for the certifications I only know one person who have the maximum no. of Ceritifcations and that is
Keir Bowden This is his blog link
http://bobbuzzard.blogspot.in/ He is an inspiration, Salesforce have many certifications, each certificate have it definition and defined for a particular expertise. Recently salesforce added few new certifications and Transition exams as well. Companies also looks for the proven expertise which is Salesforce certification, the biggest one is Salesforce Architect (my dream). Become Salesforce Certified Professional and get your dream job.
Salesforce have many more things that will make you crazy to work on Salesforce or get connected with Salesforce, Salesforce in one fastest growing cloud based platform in the world. So come join us.
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